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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Geode vs. MaxDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

geode.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

geode.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2023

2002

1984

2009

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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